Construction Technology Trends
The construction technologies with the most companies building them, from autonomy to printing.
97 robots · 112 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Earthmoving · 17
- Inspection · 14
- Logistics · 13
- Finishing · 12
- Coating · 8
- 3D Printing · 5
- Rebar · 5
- Aerial · 4
- Layout · 4
- Welding · 4
- Drilling · 3
- Striping · 3
- Demolition · 2
- Facade · 1
- Prefab · 1
- Survey · 1
Robots
Built Robotics
COBOD
Hilti
KEWAZO
WASP
Shimizu
10Lines
MYRO
Volvo CE
Flo Mobility
nLink- Sany printer
- Path welder
- ANYmal
- Skydio X10
- RPD 35
- Pictobot
- FieldAI
- Tvasta printer
- Persona AI
- DJI Dock 2
- X30
- Sany Robot roller
- B2
- DE26-X3
- EVO Max 4T
- ROBOMAG
- ExynAero
- TRON 2
- Pronto AHS
- Hyperion printer
- Percepto AIM
- Scout
- RogueX2
- Concept-X
- Pit Viper
- Hitachi AHS
- AutoMine
- Sitegeist modular
- RBTS1
- Lionel marking fleet
- IRIS
- Libra-001A
- Maximo
- Sage
- Module Install
- MalerRoboter
- i-paint X L
- LAYERED spray
- PMC-3000iE
- Floor Tile Paving Robot
- Autonomous Mobile Tying Robot
- Robot Plotter
- FJD PaintMaster Parking
- BuilderX platform
- Tracer-125
- Kite
- HOKUSAI
- SumiROBO
- GT Painter
- COMAX Rebar Tying Robot
- DM plastering robot
- Groundhog
- PV Module Mounting Robot
- ARRES Prevent
- Paint-bot
- OG1
- R Jet 111
- Fabrica grouting robot
- TITAN
- Azimuth grinder
- Robot Tank
- HMK 130 CS Teleopera
- TerraFirma excavator
- Bobby
- SR-3
- ROBEE
- GreenDock
- DF-G800
- HELP-E
- SUPPOT
- Summit-XL
- Phoenix
- Tready
Companies
- COBOD · Taastrup, Denmark · founded 2017
The most widely deployed 3D construction printers. BOD systems are printing in 35+ countries with an open-source material approach.
- Built Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2016
Aftermarket autonomy for excavators and pile drivers. The Exosystem bolts onto existing iron in a day.
- Advanced Construction Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2013
TyBot ties rebar and IronBot places it. Built for bridge decks and heavy civil - the work crews least want to do by hand.
- Monumental · Amsterdam, Netherlands · founded 2021
Autonomous bricklaying robots coordinated by Atrium, a construction OS that connects the design model to the wall.
- Boston Dynamics · Waltham, United States · founded 1992
Spot is now a regular on jobsites - scanning, safety walks, and as-built capture on terrain wheels cannot handle.
- Gecko Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2013
Wall-climbing robots plus Cantilever AI for inspecting boilers, tanks, bridges, and the infrastructure that holds cities up.
- Caterpillar · Irving, United States · founded 1925
Cat Command lets one operator run heavy iron remotely or semi-autonomously - mining, civil, and the big cuts.
- Okibo · Englewood, United States · founded 2018
EG7 is a fully autonomous painting and drywall finishing robot. No site prep, no external tracks. Over a million square feet finished.
- Promise Robotics · Toronto, Canada · founded 2021
Factory-as-a-Service: off-the-shelf industrial robots turned into AI production lines for homebuilders.
- Civ Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
CivDash autonomously stripes roads and civil sites - up to 16 miles of linework in a day, operators out of traffic.
- FieldAI · Irvine, United States · founded 2023
FieldAI (Field Foundation Models) run on Spot and other platforms - hundreds of live sites, three continents. DPR, Big-D, McLaren, Innovo in Dubai, Caterpillar. BuiltWorlds’ highest-rated robotics company among GCs in 2026.
- Automated Architecture · London, United Kingdom · founded 2015
Robotic micro-factories that manufacture modular timber housing close to the site - distributed making, not a distant plant.
- Gravis Robotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
RACK retrofits excavators with terrain-aware autonomous digging. Swiss perception stack, existing iron.
- ANYbotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2016
ANYmal is a rugged quadruped for autonomous industrial inspection - stairs, grate floors, and plants that were never designed for robots.
- nLink · Oslo, Norway · founded 2016
Autonomous ceiling drilling. The robot marks and drills thousands of holes from BIM so electricians stop looking up all day.
- MYRO · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2019
AI-guided interior finishing robots for coatings and surface treatment across large commercial floor plates in Asia.
- Hilti · Schaan, Liechtenstein · founded 1941
Jaibot is a semi-autonomous ceiling drilling robot that executes BIM-coordinated overhead work with dust extraction built in.
- Skydio · San Mateo, United States · founded 2014
AI obstacle-avoiding drones for site capture, progress, and inspection through the clutter that makes construction unflyable for most UAVs.
- Bedrock Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Waymo-alumni autonomy for 20–80 ton excavators. Supervised mass excavation already moving tens of thousands of cubic yards.
- Volvo CE · Gothenburg, Sweden · founded 1832
Autonomous and electric haulers and excavators. Autonomy as an earnings line, not an innovation booth.
- KEWAZO · Munich, Germany · founded 2016
LIFTBOT is a battery-powered robotic hoist that rides scaffolding and delivers materials to height - the carry that eats most of scaffold assembly time.
- WASP · Massa Lombarda, Italy · founded 2012
Crane WASP prints houses from earth, clay, and agricultural waste. The TECLA habitats are the postcard. The printer is the point.
- Hyperion Robotics · Espoo, Finland · founded 2019
Robotic 3D printing of reinforced concrete infrastructure - stormwater, foundations, the unglamorous work that cities actually buy.
- Scaled Robotics · Barcelona, Spain · founded 2016
Mobile robots that scan the jobsite and compare it to the BIM model. Quality control that does not wait for the punch list.
- HIVE · London, United Kingdom · founded 2021
Retrofit kits so one operator can run multiple machines remotely or autonomously. The labor math of earthmoving, rewritten.
- Inrotech · Odense, Denmark · founded 2000
Adaptive welding robots for heavy steel - ships, modules, and the prefab that construction borrows from yards.
- AIM Intelligent Machines · Espoo, Finland · founded 2018
AI retrofit for excavators and loaders. Perception and control that bolts onto iron already in the fleet.
- Shimizu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1804
Smart Site: a Japanese general contractor that builds its own robots - ceiling install, welding, material transport - and runs them on its own jobs.
- CSC Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2019
Autonomous ceiling and wall drilling from BIM. Hangers and sleeves on Asian high-rises without a week of layout.
- DJI Enterprise · Shenzhen, China · founded 2006
The default aerial camera on a jobsite. Dock-based autonomous capture for progress, survey, and the weekly flyover a GC actually uses.
- GoLe Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2021
Cloud-planned autonomous material transport tied to the digital model. Korean site logistics, not a forklift with a sticker.
- Daedong Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2020
Autonomous mobile robots for material movement on live, unstructured Korean jobsites.
- Flo Mobility · Bengaluru, India · founded 2021
Electric autonomous material movers for Indian construction sites. Last-mile site logistics without a diesel mule.
- Finish Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2021
ANDY sprays coatings and plaster autonomously. Another Pittsburgh shop, another trade that wrecks lungs.
- Pronto · San Francisco, United States · founded 2017
Autonomy for haul trucks on mines and mass earthmoving. The long, dusty loop that nobody wants to drive at 2 a.m.
- SafeAI · Santa Clara, United States · founded 2018
Autonomous heavy equipment for mining and earthmoving. Retrofit autonomy, existing fleets, supervised production.
- Xpanner · Santa Fe Springs, United States · founded 2019
Korean-founded, California-based autonomous excavation. Terrain modeling and machine control for civil cuts.
- John Deere · Moline, United States · founded 1837
SmartGrade and autonomous construction equipment. The yellow iron that already knows the surface model.
- 10Lines · Tallinn, Estonia · founded 2019
Autonomous parking-lot and pavement striping robots around a Graco pump. Tell it the layout. It paints the lines.
- Cyphra Autonomy · Fenton, United States · founded 2023
Autonomous jobsite haulers. No training, no setup - rented to contractors who are tired of sending a person for a pallet.
- Doxel · Redwood City, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous scanning that walks the job and scores percent-complete against the model. Reality capture that does not wait for a Thursday flyover.
- Tvasta · Chennai, India · founded 2016
India’s construction 3D printer. IIT Madras DNA, houses and toilets already standing.
- Path Robotics · Columbus, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous welding cells that see the joint and weld it. No teach-every-pass. Ohio steel.
- Exyn · Philadelphia, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous aerial mapping in GPS-denied space. Mines, plants, the volume a total station cannot see.
- Hitachi Construction · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
ICT excavators and autonomous haul. Japanese machine control on dirt that still has to move.
- Epiroc · Stockholm, Sweden · founded 2018
Autonomous drill rigs and underground loaders. Mining construction, not a press-demo arm.
- Sandvik · Sandviken, Sweden · founded 1862
AutoMine loaders and trucks. The underground loop that used to need a person in the cab.
- Aeditive · Hamburg, Germany · founded 2019
Shotcrete 3D printing for precast. German cells that print the element the yard used to form.
- Sany · Changsha, China · founded 1989
Chinese heavy iron and 3D construction printers. The gantry that already prints apartment walls at volume.
- HD Hyundai · Seongnam, South Korea · founded 1972
Smart construction machine control and concept autonomous excavators. Korean iron, digital grade.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- RCT · Perth, Australia · founded 1975
Remote and autonomous control for mining and earthmoving. Perth, the teleremote cab.
- FARO · Lake Mary, United States · founded 1981
Laser scanners and the as-built that the superintendent still walks with a tablet.
- Percepto · Modi'in, Israel · founded 2014
Dock-based autonomous drones for industrial sites. The flyover that no longer needs a pilot on the roof.
- DEEP Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2017
Quadrupeds for inspection on rough ground. Chinese industrial dogs on plants and sites.
- Pictobot · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2016
Interior painting robot from the Netherlands. The commercial bay that still gets rolled by hand.
- Bina Robotics · London, United Kingdom · founded 2022
Autonomous concrete 3D-printing gantry. UK shop aiming at housing volume.
- Persona AI · Houston, United States · founded 2024
Industrial humanoids for shipyards, fab shops, and construction. NASA and IHMC DNA. HD Hyundai is the first yard. The weld is the job - not a laundry demo.
- Unitree · Hangzhou, China · founded 2016
Hangzhou quadrupeds. The B2 walks plant stairs and unfinished decks that a wheeled scanner will not - industrial inspection, not a living-room demo.
- Shantui · Jining, China · founded 1980
Shandong Heavy Industry’s dozer shop. The DE26-X3 is an AI electric unmanned bulldozer already on an open-pit dump - the cab is a control room.
- Autel Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2014
EVO Max 4T - autonomous mapping and thermal from Nanshan. The other Shenzhen airframe GCs put on a corridor when DJI is not the bid.
- BOMAG · Boppard, Germany · founded 1957
ROBOMAG is a cab-less tandem roller that already knows the mat. Fayat iron, Kaiserslautern autonomy, German asphalt.
- LimX Dynamics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2022
Nanshan humanoids on live decks. TRON 2 is the modular dual-arm platform ZINOVA put on formwork and rebar - a general-purpose torso doing trade work, not a kung-fu demo.
- Sitegeist · Munich, Germany · founded 2025
Modular AI robots for concrete renovation and selective removal on live structures - hydrodem and abrasive without a pre-built 3D model. Munich. €4M pre-seed Feb 2026.
- Castor Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2024
RBTS1 ties flat-mat rebar so ironworkers stay off their knees on the deck. Hong Kong Science Park spin under HKCRC. Eighty-plus commercial sites claimed across HK, mainland, and the Middle East.
- August Robotics · Las Vegas, United States · founded 2018
Lionel marks CAD and BIM layouts on the slab so the chalk line is not the bottleneck. Las Vegas with yards in HK Science Park, Düsseldorf, Melbourne, and Shenzhen. Layout robot, not a survey toy.
- Optimotive · Windsor, Canada · founded 2020
IRIS walks the site for 3D and 360 capture so supers get as-builts without a surveyor shadowing every pour. Windsor, Ontario. EllisDon, Pomerleau, and Borea already ran it on construction and solar QA.
- Gritt · Belmont, United States · founded 2024
Physical AI attachments on skid steers and forklifts for pick-and-place, assembly, and haul on utility-scale solar and infrastructure. Belmont, California. Top-10 US EPC deployments claimed.
- Libra Robotics · Newark, United States · founded 2025
Libra-001A moves, places, aligns, and fastens PV modules so the solar crew is not on the table all day. Newark, California. YC Summer 2026. US field demos live.
- Max Robotics · Arlington, United States · founded 2023
Maximo is a tracked AI robot that places and clamps PV modules on utility-scale arrays. AES-incubated brand. Twenty megawatts-plus installed claims - service model live, not a booth demo.
- Planted Solar · Oakland, United States · founded 2020
Sage and the prior fleet deploy solar arrays on uneven ground so terrain does not kill the schedule. Oakland. Tens of megawatts already; Sage launches late 2026.
- Swap Robotics · Kitchener, Canada · founded 2018
Electric autonomous robots that lay solar modules - staging and vegetation siblings in the same yard. Kitchener–Waterloo. Product pages live through 2025–26.
- WLTR · Ceske Budejovice, Czechia · founded 2021
Tablet-controlled masonry robot for Porotherm and robot-ready brick walls. GreenBuild / KM Robotics with Wienerberger. German Construction Award 2026 for AI and automation.
- ConBotics · Berlin, Germany · founded 2020
MalerRoboter is a lightweight modular interior airless painter - rental and sale, TechnoMaler service. Berlin manufacturing. The coat a painter used to spray until the shoulders gave out.
- i-paint X · Morfelden-Walldorf, Germany · founded 2023
i-paint X L paints industrial halls semi-autonomously on a service model. Morfelden-Walldorf. Field tests from April 2025, Darmstadt pilot, 2026 product roadmap.
- LAYERED · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
Autonomous spray robot that lays protective layers and surface finishes while moving. Switzerland. Gebert Ruf Stiftung funded - early commercial, real spray path.
- WEIBUILD · Shanghai, China · founded 2016
PMC plastering and putty/paint robots that finish interiors at scale. Shanghai. Millions of square meters claimed, competition awards, live catalog.
- Partner Robotics · Dongguan, China · founded 2019
Floor tile paving robot plus scribing and mortar leveling siblings. Dongguan. Hundred-thousand-plus square meters and fifty-plus projects claimed across ten-plus countries.
- MAX Co., Ltd. · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1942
Autonomous mobile rebar-tying unit from the TWINTIER lineage. Tokyo. World of Concrete 2025 debut - the tool brand ironworkers already know, now rolling the mat.
- Tyker · Barneveld, Netherlands · founded 2015
Robot Plotter and striping siblings mark civil layout and road premark from GNSS. Barneveld. Dutch OEM with rental and support live in 2026.
- FJ Dynamics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2017
FJD PaintMaster Parking stripes parking lots from a digital scan. Shenzhen with global offices. Scan-to-stripe workflow, not a push cart with a wand.
- BuilderX Robotics · Beijing, China · founded 2020
AI-assisted remote and autonomous heavy-equipment control for jobsites. Beijing. Teleoperation platform with autonomy path - CB Insights profiled, corporate site live.
- Pave Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Tracer-125 seals asphalt cracks autonomously. YC W25. Pilot fleet rolling in 2026 - the wand work a crack crew used to walk every lane for.
- KITE Robotics · Oldenzaal, Netherlands · founded 2012
Four-cable autonomous facade and window cleaning robot for towers past 200 m. Oldenzaal. Commercial systems shipping, not a concept reel.
- Mirai Kikai · Takamatsu, Japan · founded 2004
HOKUSAI marks floor layouts autonomously - rented as SUMIDAS via Nikken, Takenaka co-dev lineage. Kagawa. Sumi-dashi without the chalk walk.
- Hitachi Channel Solutions · Tokyo, Japan · founded 2004
SumiROBO marks CAD/DXF layouts on the floor with Topcon LN-100/150. Tokyo. NETIS listed - Chiyoda Sokki and Nishio Rent All channels. Not Hitachi Construction Machinery.
- AKTIO Corporation · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1967
Strider is a remote low-bed heavy material carrier - rental live July 2025. Tokyo. BIM autonomous pallet and board transport in commercialization beside it.
- Magenta Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2018
GT Painter and Advanced GT Painter coat interiors and high-reach walls autonomously. South Korea. SCX 2025 exhibitor - product pages live.
- Comax Intelligent Technology · Shijiazhuang, China · founded 2020
Vision-guided autonomous flat-mat rebar tying robot. Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Live product page, legal entity on the site.
- Derutu · Beijing, China · founded 2017
DM plastering robot with spray and grind siblings for wall finish fleets. Beijing (Zhijiantu / Derutu). Active Chinese product site.
- SuperDroid Robots · Fuquay-Varina, United States · founded 2003
Groundhog captures 360 on the jobsite; HK1500 hauls heavy material as an AMR. Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. BuiltWorlds 2025 Top 50.
- Leapting · Huzhou, China · founded 2019
Tracked PV module mounting robot with AFR transport sibling. Huzhou / Shanghai. pv magazine Australia Culcairn coverage.
- Robotiz3d · Warrington, United Kingdom · founded 2017
ARRES Prevent detects and seals road cracks; ARRES Ultra targets potholes. Warrington / Sci-Tech Daresbury. University of Liverpool spin-out.
- AI Robotics Solutions · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2019
Paint-bot sprays indoor putty, primer, and topcoat autonomously. Hong Kong. CITF/CITAC listings and product pages.
- Origin · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
OG1 is a general-purpose interior construction robot with modular tools for drywall finish and paint. Artila Robotics Inc. Accel-backed. Live multi-family and commercial floors.
- Inteco Robotics · Zagreb, Croatia · founded 2004
R Jet series runs autonomous high-pressure water on concrete and steel - hydrodem and surface prep without a jackhammer crew on the wall. Zagreb. Special-construction pedigree claimed across two decades.
- Fabrica AI · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2021
Autonomous tile grouting and cleaning robots for residential and commercial fit-out. Singapore. BEAMP and HDB-adjacent finishing automation.
- RoboForce · Milpitas, United States · founded 2023
TITAN is an AI-powered all-terrain mobile manipulator for precision industrial and construction tasks - 40 kg payload, modular end-effectors. Milpitas. Seed 2025.
- Azimuth AI Construction · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2024
Autonomous concrete grinding and wall handling robots for Singapore jobsites. Azimuth-branded floor finishers with adaptive leveling and dust extraction claims.
- Roborn · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2017
Robot Tank is a modular jobsite AMR for cone deploy, patrol, and arm payloads on civil and building sites. Hong Kong Science Park. Traffic and site-logistics automation.
- Hidromek · Ankara, Turkey · founded 1978
HMK 130 CS Teleopera is a cabless remote/autonomous soil compactor shown at Bauma - sensor mast, no ride-on cab. Ankara. Heavy-equipment OEM going teleoperated.
- TerraFirma · Buda, United States · founded 2023
SpaceX-alum retrofit autonomy for excavators, dozers, loaders, and rollers - Robot Ranch HQ in Buda. Live Texas earthwork, site prep, and demolition with remote/semi-autonomous crews.
- Carbon Origins · San Francisco, United States · founded 2021
Bobby is an AI + VR-supervised multipurpose compact track loader for solar, earthwork, dust control, and material handling. San Francisco roots, Minneapolis ops heritage. Hire-the-robot model on live sites.
- Square Robot · Westborough, United States · founded 2016
SR-3 is an autonomous submersible tank-inspection robot - API 653 / EEMUA 159, FM Approved. Westborough, MA. Inspects aboveground storage tanks on-stream without confined-space entry.
- ROBEE Contech · Beer Sheva, Israel · founded 2022
ROBEE is a semi-autonomous floor-tiling robot with adhesive mix/spread and 7-DOF place - Israel. Patents in IL/US/CH/EU. Targets ~200 m²/day vs expert hand tile rates on live interior finishes.
- AMBPR · Allevard, France · founded 2018
GreenDock is an autonomous MEWP-class mobile robot for wash, blast, paint, and inspection on large vertical surfaces - Allevard. Shipyard and industrial hull work with telescopic tool head.
- DaFang · Shenzhen, China · founded 2020
DF-G800 is a jobsite floor-finishing robot for grind/polish on commercial slabs - Shenzhen (HK/Singapore ops). Wall, ceiling, plaster, and brick siblings in the DaFang AI finishing fleet.
- Borobo · Paris, France · founded 2019
HELP-E is an all-terrain autonomous carrier co-developed with Eiffage for jobsite material haul - Paris. Follow-me and autonomous modes; about 80 kg class loads so the crew keeps walking free.
- Somic Transformation · Hamamatsu, Japan · founded 2019
SUPPOT is a rough-terrain construction support robot for haul and follow-me work - Hamamatsu. Rental fleet for Japanese civil and building yards; remote or worker-following modes.
- Robotnik · Valencia, Spain · founded 2002
RB-SUMMIT / Summit-XL class AMRs carry scanners and cameras for construction inspection and survey - Valencia. Outdoor mobile base used on European Construction 4.0 pilots.
- Sanctuary AI · Vancouver, Canada · founded 2018
Phoenix-class humanoids for industrial tasks including welding demos - Vancouver. Carbon-copy work that still needs dexterous hands on the torch or the plug.
- HEBI Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2014
Tready is a rugged tracked mobile robot for stairs, uneven ground, and confined inspection - Pittsburgh. Modular actuators under a deck that walks where wheeled carts stop.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the biggest construction tech trends?
- Autonomy, robotics across trades, 3D printing, off-site building and reality capture.
- Which companies are on the construction technology trends list?
- Future of Built lists 112 companies here, including COBOD, Built Robotics, Advanced Construction Robotics, Monumental, Boston Dynamics, Gecko Robotics, Caterpillar and Okibo.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (35), China (15), Japan (7), Germany (6), Canada (4).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 97 robots on this page, 69 deployed, 25 pilot, 3 production, per the Future of Built file.